Awards: Third Annual ASME Best Cover Competition

American Society of Magazine Editors announced the best magazine covers of the year (US editions) on October 6 in the following Categories: Cover of the Year, Best Celebrity Cover, Best Concept Cover, Best Fashion Cover, Best News Cover, Best Leisure Interest Cover and Best Personal Service Cover, with special recognition of the year’s best coverline.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

• Cover of the Year – New York, March 24, 2008:
The cover treated the scandal concerning the fall of Governor Eliot Spitzer, after the stunning revelation that he had patronized a prostitution ring, in a bold yet disarming way that managed to make news itself—telling the story of the governor’s fall with a wry and unflinching point of view. The word “BRAIN” in a bright-red box with an arrow pointing to the area of Spitzer’s anatomy that seemed to have been thinking for him cover required no headlines. The image succeeded powerfully all by itself.

• Best Celebrity Cover – Texas Monthly, May 2008: Willie Nelson and guitar

• Best Concept Cover – The New Yorker, February 11 & 18, 2008: “Eustace Tillarobama”
This anniversary issue cover of The New Yorker reinterprets Rea Irvin’s classic Eustace Tilley image to produce “Eustace Tillarobama,” a two-headed playing card image that featured the leading Democratic presidential candidates dressed as the New Yorker icon, sharing his famous monocle. Half of the run featured Obama on top and Clinton on the bottom; in the other half, Clinton had the upper hand.

• Best Fashion Cover (Tie) – New YorkLook, Spring 2008: Catwalk; Vanity Fair, September 2007: Gisele Bündchen

• Best News Cover – New York, March 24, 2008: Eliot Spitzer’s “Brain”

• Best Personal Service Cover – TexasMonthly, June 2008: “The Top 50 BBQ Joints in Texas”

• Best Leisure Interest Cover – New York, June 30, 2008: “The Summer Issue” (John McCain and Barack Obama at the Beach)

To view the cover image gallery, visit www.magazine.org/bestcover.

Awards: Cover of the Year 2007

MPA's Cover of the Year award 2007 goes to September 11, 2006 cover from The New Yorker.

About the cover:
For the five-year 9/11 anniversary cover, John Mavroudis’ concept was to stay away from the surfeit of images that recall the horror and remember the wonder of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tight-rope walk between the towers. The result in Owen Smith’s painting is magical: the walker, in the absence of towers and rope, remains suspended in the white space of a blank page. The two-part cover (a first for The New Yorker) is a memorial to the spirit of humanity and those who died there, and especially to the man who did a perfect dive as he plunged to his death.

You can see winning covers and finalists, and read the stories behind them here.

Awards: Pictures of the Year (Magazines)

POYi started as a photographic contest in 1944 in Columbia, Missouri and for over six decades has been a forum to recognize excellence in photojournalism by honoring the photographers, editors and their institutions of employment. It has preserved a visual archive of our shared history.
In 1948, magazine photographers were invited to participate in the contest and since then the Winners gallery is divided into ‘Magazine Division’ and ‘Newspaper/General Division’.

Here are some of the winners of the magazine photo awards:

Magazine Spot News: Dar Yasin, The Associated Press
Yasin is a freelance photographer based in Kashmir, India. He has been recoginsed for his picture depicting ‘Indian paramilitary soldiers carry the body of a police officer killed in a gunfight in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006.
Yasin contributes regularly to Associated Press and Onasia. Yasin's work has been published in Time Magazine, Match du Monde, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph and many leading newspapers and news magazines.
You can view more of his work here

Magazine General News: Q. Sakamaki, Redux for NEWSWEEK
For the series "SRI LANKAN CONFLICT" Funeral workers care for child victims of the Sri Lankan political violence, as the country is at the brink of all-out war.
This series also gets the Magazine General News Reporting Picture Story

Magazine Photographer of the Year: Christopher Anderson, Magnum for Newsweek
For his picture series on Caracas, Beirut, Gaza and Singles










Magazine Portrait: Farah Nosh, Getty Images/ TIME Magazine


For the "AFGHAN STUDENT"















Issue Reporting Story: Jose Cendon, Freelance

For "FEAR IN THE GREAT LAKES"









The judging for the contest is still on, you can view more of the award winning magazine photos as they appear at the poyi website

Awards: Computerworld Best B2B Publication- ASBPE

The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) has honoured Computerworld with its 2006 ASBPE Magazine of the Year. Computerworld received this honour for the second time in three years. Computerworld.com also received the gold in the best "Overall Web Publication" category. The judges recognized Computerworld as "packed with so much useful information," and containing "relevant, useful graphics." There's "never a fluffy issue," they said, adding that what Computerworld does is "difficult for any monthly magazine, and they do it weekly."

Awards Summary:
80,000-and-over circulation:
Magazine of the year: Computerworld
Honorable mentions:
CFO (The Economist Group publication for finance executives)
CIO (IDG publication which targets information executives)
Under-80,000-circulation:
Magazine of the year: CSO (IDG publication for security executives)
Honorable mentions:
Security (a TechTarget publication)
Meetings & Conventions (from Northstar Travel Media)

Magazine of the Year Criteria
Azbees are given in 40 categories. This year Fifteen magazines won Golds in editorial categories; 23 in graphics, and six in digital.
Up to six judges evaluated three consecutive issues of the magazine to gauge consistency in quality. Judges are "in the trenches" journalists and rate the magazines according to the following criteria:
-- Writing, reporting and editing
-- Usefulness to the reader
-- Editorial organization
-- Interaction with readers
-- Layout and design

IDG in India
IDG India was recently in news when they launched PCWorld India (priced at 60) with the July 06 issue. CIO Magazine and OutsourcingWorld are other two publications brought out by them in India.

Awards: 2006 Chicago Tribune Favourite 50

The staff at Chicago Tribune announce their fourth Annual 'Favourite 50 Magazines' list.

1) THE ECONOMIST - The best English-language newsweekly.
2) DWELL - An old-fashioned sense of fun and practicality.
3) WIRED - Meaty reporting.
4) THE NEW YORKER - Wonderful writing and reporting.
5) ESPN THE MAGAZINE - About the people playing the games.
6) ESQUIRE - Just the right mix of fashion, music, how-to and humor.
7) CONSUMER REPORTS - The straight scoops on our consumer culture.
8) BLENDER - The cool kid of rock magazines.
9) GOURMET - Love it for the worldview it applies to food.
10) THE ATLANTIC - Keeps us smart and in the know.
11) MEN'S VOGUE - Knows no he.te.ro, ho..m.o or metr.o.s..ex..ual boundaries.
12) COOK'S ILLUSTRATED - Consumer Reports for our stomachs.
13) COTTAGE LIVING - A simple, comfortable, stylish way of life.
14) MOTHER JONES - Go[es] where other magazines dare not tread.
15) MEN'S HEALTH - Well-written in-depth essays.

Read complete article and more detailed reviews of their favourite 50 magazines, or vote for your magazine preference.

Awards: 2006 ASME National Magazine Awards

In the world of magazines, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. This is the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize Nominees and winners are chosen by hundreds of editors, educators, and art directors from over a thousand submissions.

The 2006 National Magazine Award winners are:

General Excellence (over 2,000,000 circulation):
Time

General Excellence (1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation):
ESPN The Magazine

General Excellence (500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation):
Esquire

General Excellence (250,000 to 500,000 circulation):
New York Magazine

General Excellence (100,000 to 250,000 circulation):
Harper’s Magazine

General Excellence (under 100,000 circulation):
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Personal Service: Self
Leisure Interests: Golf
Reporting: Rolling Stone
Public Interest:The New Yorker
Feature Writing: The American Scholar
Profile Writing: Esquire
Essays: Vanity Fair
Columns and Commentary: The New Yorker
Reviews and Criticism: Harper’s Magazine
Magazine Section: Backpacker
Single-topic Issue: Time
Design: New York Magazine
Photography: W
Photo Portfolio/Photo Essay: Rolling Stone
Fiction: Virginia Quarterly Review
General Excellence Online: National Geographic Online